Art, resistance, and healing: on the potentials of using the Creative Change Laboratory (CCoLAB) among queer youth in Brighton

在一个由严重不平等所定义的世界中，基于艺术的方法有助于想象社会挑战的替代方案，作为建立社区的工具，以及作为治疗和福祉的实践。在南部非洲的背景下，艺术和基于艺术的方法已被用作对殖民和种族隔离暴行的回应，并作为想象公正和更公平的存在方式的机制（Seidman & Schaer, 2011）。自2012年以来，创意变革实验室（CCoLAB）及其前身创意抵抗工具包（Creative Resistance Toolkit）已被用于赋予南部非洲边缘化青年应对压迫的权力（Marnell & Khan, 2016）。这包括在南部非洲的几个地点为酷儿青年创造安全的艺术创作空间。2019年，CCoLAB作为一套更新的工具进行了试点，使用基于艺术的方法与边缘化青年合作。对这些社区艺术干预的研究强调了基于艺术的方法如何有助于青年行动主义和社区建设。虽然对这些干预措施的初步研究侧重于赋予年轻人应对同性恋恐惧症（以及其他形式的压迫）的能力，但最近的研究将重点转向了CCoLAB方法的治疗质量（Volks, Khan, & Alves, 2021）。例如，探索以艺术为基础的方法如何在创伤和心理困扰的背景下支持边缘化青年。提出的研究旨在探索在英国酷儿青年中提供在全球南方发展的方法的机会和局限性。通过调动艺术方法的潜力来想象新的和不同的可能性，这项参与性研究将寻求建立以艺术为基础的干预措施，如CCoLAB，如何在布莱顿的有色人种酷儿青年中治愈和建立弹性。

In a world defined by stark inequalities, arts-based methods are useful for imagining alternatives to social challenges, as a tool for building community, and as a practice for healing and wellbeing. In the southern African context, art and arts-based methods have been used as a response to colonial and apartheid atrocities, and as a mechanism for imagining just and more equitable ways of being (Seidman & Schaer, 2011). Since 2012, the Creative Change Laboratory (CCoLAB) and its predecessor, the Creative Resistance Toolkit, have been used to empower marginalized youth to respond to oppression in southern Africa (Marnell & Khan, 2016). This included creating safe art-making spaces for queer youth at several sites in southern Africa. In 2019, CCoLAB was piloted as an updated set of tools for using arts-based methods to work with marginalized youth. Research on these community arts interventions have highlighted how arts-based methods can contribute to youth activism and community building. While initial research on these interventions focussed on empowering youth to respond to homophobia (among other forms of oppression), research recently shifted focus towards the healing qualities of the CCoLAB methodology (Volks, Khan, & Alves, 2021). For example, exploring how arts-based methods can support marginalized youth within contexts of trauma and psychological distress. The proposed research seeks to explore the opportunities and limitations of offering a methodology developed in the global south among queer youth in the UK. Through mobilising art methods' potentials to imagine new and different possibilities, this participatory research will seek to establish how arts based interventions such as CCoLAB, can heal and build resilience among queer youth of colour in Brighton.